ssakmule wrote:Rimbaud III wrote:I got my test results back. It turns out that I've had nothing more serious than chronic tonsillitis for the last ten months, explaining the lump. I literally fell to the floor with relief when the doctor told me. This has pretty much monopolised my thoughts for the best part of a year, and to finally know that it's not what I was worried it could be is the best news of the god damn fucking year.
It's time to make some serious changes.
Any reason you did not get it checked during the last 10 months, when you were having so much discomfort?
A mixture of incredulity, denial and fear probably prevented me from being more aggressive in getting doctors to take me seriously. I went to see my doctor (a surly New Yorker) on what, maybe three or four occasions and each and every time he told me it was nothing and that I was being unduly anxious.